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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential flute music, Ailish Tynan, Handel's Acis and Galatea

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, Op.18

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 1.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 17.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet.
    • Zia.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
    • 14.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hush, ye pretty warbling choir (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • ERATO.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia (El Puerto)

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fern谩ndez Arb贸s. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Albeniz: Argerich, Barenboim.
    • Elatus.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.1 in G major, BWV.1007 (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Eleonor Bindman. Performer: Eleonor Bindman.
    • J.S. Bach: Cello Suites (Arr. E. Bindman for Piano).
    • Grand Piano.
    • 101.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph K枚nig.
    • Naxos.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • The Exquisite Hour.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 009.
  • William Walton

    Johannesburg Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.
  • Lucy Pankhurst

    Diaphanousphere

    Ensemble: Lunar Saxophone Quartet.
    • Flux.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Mi chiamano Mimi (La boh猫me)

    Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Mirella Freni: Arias by Puccini/Verdi/Rossini.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Rapsodie d'Auvergne in C major Op.73

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Saint Saens: Piano Concertos Nos.3 and 5 etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    O come sei gentile

    Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco.
    • Monteverdi: Complete Duets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 115.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Regard des Hauteurs (20 Regards sur l'enfant J茅sus)

    Performer: Michel B茅roff.
    • Messiaen: 100th Anniversary Box Set.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 516.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Green Finch and Linnet Bird (Sweeney Todd)

    Singer: Jayne Wisener. Orchestra: Uncredited Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in E flat major Op.1`1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Leos.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 1 - Hache: Desinstalation.
    • Klarthe.
    • 113.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (Vivace)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in G minor "La notte" RV.439 Op.10`2

    Performer: Janet See. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Pachelbel's Canon & Other Baroque Favourites.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 112.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.6 in D minor, Op.104 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.
  • Iiro Rantala

    September (My Finnish Calendar)

    Performer: Iiro Rantala.
    • Act.
  • Anon.

    Pakington's Pownde

    Ensemble: Consort Brouillamini.
    • The Woods so Wild.
    • Paraty.
    • 108.
  • William Byrd

    The Woods so Wild

    Ensemble: Consort Brouillamini.
    • The Woods so Wild.
    • Paraty.
    • 110.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.76 etc.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Sun Whose Rays (The Mikado) arr. for piano

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • Keith Jarrett - La Fenice.
    • ECM.
    • 7.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Paladins (Ouverture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Rameau: Suite Les Paladins: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Leonhardt.
    • Philips.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.

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  • Mon 28 Sep 2020 09:00

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